SeongJae Park <sj38.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> - - Locking functions.
> >> + - Acquiring functions.
> ...
> > It's specifically talking about locking functions that the kernel provides -
> > or are we calling the spin acquires and R/W spin acquires now? "Locking" is
> > the key that people referring to the document are going to use.
>
> AFAIU, the next line of the quoted text says the section is talking about
> variants on "ACQUIRE" operations and "RELEASE" operations for each locking
> constructs.
Whilst that's true, most people think of them as locks. You could change the
name of the section to:
Locking/Acquiring functions
or:
Lock acquisition functions
perhaps.
David
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